The Michigan State Fairgrounds Speedway was a dirt oval racing track located in Detroit, Michigan.
The track was built in 1899 for horse racing,[1] and it was part of the ground purchased to provide a permanent venue for the Michigan State Fair.
Joseph Lowthian Hudson donated the land, at Woodward Avenue and what is now 8 Mile Road, to the Michigan State Agricultural Society.
[2] By 1908, the racetrack, at the east end of the fairground, had a 5,000-seat capacity grandstand.
[3] In 1971 the grandstand was declared unsafe; it was demolished in 2001.